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Degoogled Android – My Experience

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Re: Degoogled Android – My Experience

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Post by poulpy123 »

echelon_musk wrote: post #11

My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

There is nothing free in the Apple ecosystem, neither as n free beer or in free speech. You can't even install an app that isn't approved by Apple on an iphone of ipad

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Post by toastercat »

echelon_musk wrote: post #11

My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

I would use iPhone, but I like Syncthing way too much.

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Post by realusername »

echelon_musk wrote: post #11

My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

You are just swapping a tech giant for another one, it's not really a solution

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Post by Ender-events »

I've been using sailfish os with android app support + microg for over 5 years. It work for my daily low usage (browser, music, sometime bank) but missing nfc + bluetooth on andoid vm

> Graphene describes itself as “The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility”. Like yeah no shit you have Android app compatibility. YOU’RE FUCKING ANDROID.

If I remember an anecdote from the android course, to get the android logo and the right to call an android device, you have to pass the android certification. And according to the teacher, it was a real pain.

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Post by rchaud »

echelon_musk wrote: post #11

My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

That is not a deGoogled phone in the sense that Android users refer to. An iPhone doesn't have any of the benefits of a deGoogled phone such as microSD storage, Linux via Termux or alternative app stores.

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Post by HeatrayEnjoyer »

rumpelstilzchen wrote: post #7

How about Play Integrity and Key attestation results? What are the results of test apps (e.g. SPIC - com.henrikherzig.playintegritychecker and io.github.vvb2060.keyattestation) in your setup? I feel like more and more big apps rely on these security features.

Integrity will eventually (soon) switch over to hardware attestation. At that point nothing will pass that isn't stock out of the box, no amount of software hackery will bypass it.

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Post by Pfhortune »

echelon_musk wrote: post #11

My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

> That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.

I am still shocked at how much blue bubbles seem to affect some folk's social lives. Does it really matter that much?

Re: Degoogled Android – My Experience

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Post by winterqt »

bitfilped wrote: post #8

Shame the author immediately threw out grapheneos "because they purley focus on privacy", the user experience is much better than lineage these days.

Graphene also has a way to sandbox Play Services, and may even allow Google Wallet using that, making it so that they don't have to dual boot.
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